Craft Fun

I'm always on the lookout for educational and enjoyable things to do with my grandchildren. Hot Off the Press has a new craft club for girls ages 7-12 that fits the bill. Each month, your girl will receive a kit containing 2 projects complete with the supplies needed and complete instructions and photos.

Kids can use their creativity to decorate a pen with polymer clay. Follow these step-by-step illustrated instructions to make your own creation.

Treasure Bottles is a fun project for kids to make and play with or give away as a gift. They also make great party favors for birthday parties.

These Smackers "Make Your Own" Kits mix crafts and science while providing fun and entertainment. Girls mix their own products, decorate the jars, and then create a label and name for their creation.

Keeping a diary, or journal, is an important part of writing and a good way for homeschoolers to get in their daily writing practice. With these creative kits, kids can decorate and personalize their own diaries.

Keeping in touch with friends and relatives is more fun with these kits to create your own cards, stationery, address books and day planner. Letter writing is a great way for homeschoolers to practice their writing skills.

Discover the lost art of candle making. Have fun making different types of candles, painting candles and making collage candles with these fun kits.

Make your own clocks with these kits. Kids have a lot of fun showing off their creativity by designing their own clocks.

Add some personality to your garden with these craft kits for personalized stepping stones, bells, wind chimes, sundials and more. Pick flowers and leaves from your garden, press them and make handmade cards and gifts.

Maybe you don't have your own woodshop out back, but kids can try their hand at woodworking with these kits. The kits range from creating your own projects, to specific projects, to wood-burning, to motorized wooden models.

Fun crafts projects for spring.  From your About.com Homeschooling Guide.

Pin the Nose on Frosty Game - Christmas Games. Follow this illustrated step-by-step to make a Christmas game to play with your family and friends.

Christmas Tree Snowball Toss Game - Christmas Games. Follow this illustrated step-by-step to make a Christmas game to play with your family and friends.

Fun outdoor ideas for the summer and anytime. From your About.com Guide.

Vintage Christmas Tree Craft - Craft from 1965. Follow this illustrated step-by-step to make them with your own kids. These make perfect keepsakes for parents and grandparents.

Craft ideas for Valentines Day. From your About.com Guide.

Great project for kids of any age - learn how to dry flowers. From your About.com Guide.

Lots of projects and ideas to enjoy with your children.

Check out the new craft ideas and activities from the library of inspiring ideas. From Crayola.

Crafts made from common household items and a printer.

Scissors and glue and imagination equal fun. Arts and crafts children can do.

Craft projects using materials found around the house.

Make your very own personalized Loving Family Doll House scrapbook! Click on an image for a full-sized page that you can print on your printer! Color it and add your own special photo!

At Making Friends you'll find lots creative activities for kids ages 2 through 12.

Just like plastic, metal and wood, paper is a great way to create models and toys. 

Recipes for play dough, ice cream, silly putty, and finger paints. 

A new cap for school glue that helps prevent the messes. See the Fun Stuff page for a few ideas.

Craft ideas for Valentines Day, Easter, Fall and Christmas.

A New Way to Use Old Snapshots - Instead of letting your snapshots take up space and contribute to the clutter in your home, use them to make collages (at a cost of less than $10 each) that you can give as Christmas gifts to family and friends.